No Plan November continued apace this weekend, what with the graduation, parents, 2 meals out (The Mitre, Handedans) 5 pubs (Brewdog, Bow Bar, Cask & Barrel, Dagda and The Halfway House) and a trip to Arbroath for a wedding. Today I feel sleepy and more than a little happy with life.
However, on Friday my life was was looking a long way from today’s happy outlook as a crashing app on the beloved iPhone forced a restore and wiped everything – no photos, no numbers, no text messages, no back up. Basically the last 2 years of my life wiped away.
Over the weekend I have downloaded the apps again, added new music and taken a few more cat photos to make my phone feel like home again and it is getting there, but what I find really sad is that I no longer have a huge phone book of phone numbers. Oh the important numbers are back (parents, B, B’s family, my best mates, thanks guys!) but there are now less than 20 numbers in my phone when there were once close to 100.
To be honest these days I don’t really need the phone numbers as I can get in touch via email, skype, twitter, whatsapp, or facebook all via my phone. The telephone part of my phone is so rarely used these days, even text messaging. A Dm pops up just the same as a text message and is just as quick.
..but isn’t that sad? As I no longer need phone numbers, I obviously no longer need to have a conversation over the phone. These days I don’t need to phone people to know what they are doing. I am often ‘in contact’ with people all day every day via their status updates. But why when I ‘speak online’ to my actual friends every day do I feel sad with the loss of people’s numbers when I would very very very rarely phone them to speak to them anyway?
Social media really actually making us anti-social. Well according to B it is. I am starting to agree with him. As I am not a ‘phone person’ (i’m fine on skype as I can see who I am talking to) until I lost all my phone numbers I never missed them. I had completely moved on from this form of communication. I am not alone, I even know kids who never use email.
Sometimes I really wish I could throw the iPhone in the bin, but I can’t, it is a way of life now. But that isn’t to say I hanker back to the old days…
I miss pocket telephone books
I miss dialing out the number slowly and carefully
I miss long conversations talking about boys and parties and what are you going to wear
I miss hiding in my room with the extension
I miss wating for the phone to ring with a boy asking for a date
…I miss all the things I did before I had my life on a phone.
Miss S x
P.s Do you think we are getting more anti-social or is it just the age of the phone going, going…gone? What do you miss?